The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-07

praying for his soul, bothered himself:
about the proprieties Of tbs sick room and
said: ''Give Dayboles CHAIR" Godfrey
Kneller spent his last hours on earth in
drawing diagram of his own monument
Compare the silly and horrible departure
of such men with the seraphic glow on the
face of Edward Payson, as he said in his
last moments: 1.-THE breezes of Heaven
fan me. float in a sea of glory" Or,
with Paul, the Apostle, VINO said in his last
hour: 81 am now ready to be offered up,
and the time of my departure is at hand.
have fought the cool fight. Ihave kept
the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for
me q crown of Righteousness which the
Lord, my righteous Judge, will give me-"
Or compar, it with the Caristian death-bed
that you Witnessed in your own household.
Oh, nv friends. this world is a false gol!
1t will consume you with the blaze m
which it accepts your sacrifice, while the
righteous shall be held in everlasting re-
membrance; and when the thrones have
fallen, and the monuments have crumbled,
and the world has persisted, they shall ban
quet with the corqucrors Of earth and the
hierarch of Heaven.
This is 2 good day in which to begin a
new style OF measurement. How old art
thoun You see the Christian way OF meas
uriug life and the worldly way of measur-
ing it. leave it to you to say which is the
wIsest and best way. The wheel of time
has turned very swiftly, and it has hurled
US on. The Old year has gone. The new
year has come. For what You and l have
been launched upon il, God only knows.
Now let me asll you all: Have you made
any preparation for the futures! You have
made preparation for time, my dear broth
er; have you made any preparation for
eterritys Do you wonder that when that
man on the Hudson river. in indignation,
tore up the tract which was handed to him,
and just one word landed on his coat sleeve
the rest of the tract being pitched into
the river-that one word aroused his soul
1t was that one word, SO long, 50 broad, 50
high, SO Geep-seternity." A dying wom-
an, in her last moments, said: g Cal it
back!" They said: .'Wnat d. you want."
"Tims," she said; ''call it back!" On, it
can not be called back! We might lose our
fortunes AMI call them blck; W. might
lose oar heath and perhaps recover it; we
might lose our good name AMI get that
back; but time gone is gone forever.
Some Of you. during the past year. made
preparation for eternity, and it makes no
difference to You really, as to the matter OF
safety. whether You go now or go some
other year-whether this year or the next
year. Both your feet On the rock, the
waves may dash around you. You can say:
''God is our refuge AM siren yth-a Very
present help" You are on the rock, and
You rlay defy all earth and hell to over
throw you. congratulate you. i give you
great JOY. 1t is happy New Year to you.
To all Christians it is a time of g!adness.
am glad the years are going You are COM
ing on nearer home. Let your countenancc
light up with the thought: Nearer home
Now. wnen one can sooner get to the CEN
ter of things, is he not to be congratulated
Who wants to b, always in the freshman
class! We stu ly Col in this world by tho
Biblical photograph OF Him; but We all
know we can in i've III mites of interview
with friend get a more accurate idea of
him than we can by studying him fifty
years through pictures or words. The lit
tie child that died at six IN ,nths of age
knows more Of God than all Andover, and
ali Princeton, and ali New Brunswick, and
all Edinburgh, and all the theological insti-
tuition in Cnrls.cldom. Is it MT be.tcr to
go up to the very headquarters Of kno'vl-
edges
Docs not our comm sense teach us
that it is better to BE- at the center than to
be clear out on the rim of the wheel, hold |
ing nervously fast to the tire lest We he |
hurled into light and eternal fc- |
lefty. Through all kinds OF optical nstrl. |
ncnts trying to peer IN through the cracks !
md the kcyholes Of Heaven--arraid that |
both doors of the celestial mansion will he !,
swung wide Orcn before our ent-anced Wis |
about among the apothecarv |
shops Of this world. wondering If this is
good for rheumatism and that is good for |
neuralgia, AMI som eth;ng else Is good for ,
BAD cough, lest we be suddenly ushered into |
| land of everlasting health where the ill.,
nabitaut never says: II am sick.''
What fools We all are to prefer the cir
to the center What dreadful
hing it would be if we should suddenly be
lshered from thi; wintry world into the
Nay time orchards of Heaven, and if our
,aup,rism of sin and sorrow should be
suddenly broken up By q presentation of
In Empcror's castle surrounded by parks
With sp-inSing fountains ana paths. up and
Town which angels of Col walk two and
wo.
In 1Sa5 tn, French resolved that at
I1She Wouiu nave VI |
that hal never before been
learl of. 1t would be made up of the
hines of balls and the discharge Of can
ION. The experiment was a perfect sue =
ess. What with tn, ringing Of the bells
nd the report of the ordnance, the city
rembled and the hills shook with the
march that was as strange as it
vas overwhelming. With q more glorious
will Gods dear children go
nto their high residence, when the
rumpets shall sound and the last day has
ONE. At thu signal given, the bells Of
he towers, and of the lighthouses,
nd Of the cities, will strike
heir sweetness into a last chime
hat shall ring into the heavens
nd float on upon the sea, joined by the
DOM of bursting mine and magazine, aug
lented by all the cathedral towers of
harnonies of earth and the
ymphonies of the celestial realm making
p one great triumphal march, fit to cele-
rate the ascent of the redeemed to where
hey shall shine as stars forever and for
yer. With such anticipations we can look
ack without single regret upon the fly
ag years, and forward with exultation to
he time when the archangel, with one foot
n the sea and the other foot on the land,
hail swear by Him that liveth for ever and
yer, that time shall be no longer.
Sow ky,e Good Snod